Medical Dosimetry
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 154-157 , Summer 2009

Characterization of the Transmission of the Elekta Stereotactic Body Frame (ESBF) and Accounting for it During Treatment Planning

Presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Physicists in Medicine, Poster Session, July 22–26, 2007, Minneapolis, MN.

Received 18 December 2007 ,Revised 25 June 2008 ,Accepted 4 August 2008.

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PII: S0958-3947(08)00126-X

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.08.001

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 154-157 , Summer 2009